The Middleman Stephanie McKenzie A few have made desperate

A few have made desperate journeys from Syria

Nathalie Handal: Poem

which plunge to the edge of despair without falling prey to the merely personal

My raincoat from the Hill-Luck-Spirit is - behold

Those familiar with Barnie’s work will enjoy having a selection from his varied output

The Middleman Stephanie McKenzie A few have made desperateThe poems in The Middleman refuse to take sides, or rather, they insist on taking all sides. Writing from the United States with a Canadian background and Irish ancestry, Cavanagh straddles a number of borders. With deft language and a compassionate voice, his poems explore complex territories of love, family, work, and nationality through the lens of personal history. They seek lost connections from a Montreal childhood, a funeral procession in Cork,